Oliver Falk (oliver linux-kernel at) said:
> The vixie-cron package contains so many patches and the release has been
> increased so many times now... Active development of cron is only done
> by distributions now.
Right. We (briefly) had a forked upstream for sysklogd; this would be similar.
> Or is there any good alternative for vixie-cron? I'm not 100 % sure, but
> I think I stumbled across some crond, that is under active development.
> Quick search on freshmeat or via google should be done.
fcron. Maybe it's worth switching.
Bill